The problem perplexed him.
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Perplexed
//pɚˈplɛkst//
Synonyms for "perplexed" (121 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
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Antonyms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
46 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- объркан adj (confused or puzzled)
- озадачен adj (bewildered)
- смутен adj (confused or puzzled)
Chagatai
1 entries- حیران adj (confused or puzzled)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 迷惘 adj (confused or puzzled)
- 迷惘 adj (bewildered)
Dutch
1 entries- perplex adj (confused or puzzled)
Esperanto
1 entries- perpleksa adj (confused or puzzled)
Finnish
4 entries- hämmentynyt adj (confused or puzzled)
- hämmentynyt adj (bewildered)
- ymmällään adj (confused or puzzled)
- ymmällään adj (bewildered)
French
1 entries- perplexe adj (confused or puzzled)
German
3 entries- perplex adj (confused or puzzled)
- verblüfft adj (bewildered)
- verdutzt adj (confused or puzzled)
Greek
2 entries- μπερδεμένος adj (confused or puzzled)
- σαστισμένος adj (bewildered)
Ido
1 entries- perplexa adj (confused or puzzled)
Italian
1 entries- perplesso adj (confused or puzzled)
Japanese
2 entries- 困った adj (confused or puzzled)
- 当惑した adj (confused or puzzled)
Macedonian
3 entries- збу́нет adj (confused or puzzled)
- збу́нет adj (bewildered)
- ста́писан adj (bewildered)
Marsian
1 entries- pōhēhē adj (bewildered)
Māori
3 entries- pōhēhē adj (confused or puzzled)
- pōkeka adj (confused or puzzled)
- pōkeka adj (bewildered)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- شاشقین adj (confused or puzzled)
- شاشقین adj (bewildered)
Polish
2 entries- zakłopotany adj (confused or puzzled)
- zmieszany adj (confused or puzzled)
Portuguese
1 entries- perplexo adj (confused or puzzled)
Russian
3 entries- недоумева́ющий adj (confused or puzzled)
- недоумённый adj (confused or puzzled)
- ошеломлённый adj (bewildered)
Sanskrit
1 entries- मुग्ध adj (confused or puzzled)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- izgubljen adj (bewildered)
- nesiguran adj (bewildered)
- zbunjen adj (confused or puzzled)
- zbunjen adj (bewildered)
Spanish
1 entries- perplejo adj (confused or puzzled)
Turkish
1 entries- şaşkın adj (confused or puzzled)
Uyghur
1 entries- ھەيران adj (confused or puzzled)
Uzbek
1 entries- hayron adj (confused or puzzled)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
He was utterly perplexed.
Source: tatoeba (290280)
He was perplexed at the unexpected result.
Source: tatoeba (304500)
Her tears perplexed him.
Source: tatoeba (308236)
Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.
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